Md. colleges given $11M to combat nursing shortage - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The grants, being divvied among 17 Marylandnursing schools, will be used to lure facultty and students, and improve technology at the universities. Maryland’zs nursing shortage is expectesd toreach 10,000 by 2016, according to the . The currenyt vacancy rate of nurses at state hospitals is 8 The economic downturn has helped the industry becauser many retired nurses have come back to but once the recession ends the shortagewill worsen, said Carmelaz Coyle, CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association. The firsr round of grants will increase the numberr of nurses graduating by 300 studentzs and add 20 faculty positions at nursin programs acrossthe state.
“The number of nursesd graduating from Maryland schools are simply not saidRonald B. Peterson, president of and co-chaif of the “Who Will Care?” campaign at a presws conference Monday. “We cannot take our eye off thenursingb demand.” The campaign’s goal is to add 1,500 new nursing students. The program has raised $15.5 million to date througyh the state’s business community, including fundsa from the Baltimore constructionform , , the region's largesft hospital system, and , the region's largest health Greater Baltimore Medical Center, for example, gave The goal is to raise $20 milliobn from the private sector by the end of the and then raise an addition $40 milliobn in state, local and federal funds.
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